Heddle.



C. ENGER.

HEDDLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1910.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CD.,WASH|NGTON, n. c4

UNITED %TATE% PATENT @FFlQE.

CARL ENGER, OF Mil'LHEIM-ON-THE-REINE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO FELTEN AND GUILLEAUME-LAHMEYERWERKE ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT, 0F MULEEIM-ON-THE- RHINE, GERMANY.

HEDDLE.

LUWSAEL Application filed August 5,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL ENGER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Frankturterstrasse 69, Miilheim-on-the Rhine, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Heddles, of which the following is a specification.

With heddles constructed of two wires soldered together and twisted to to m a loop through which the warp thread is passed, there is a tendency for the thread to lodge in the winding of the wires and in consequence to break. To overcome this objection, it has been proposed to provide the loop with an eye composed either of a wirering, or a steel ring, or a sheet-metal disk, or a thimble-like device, or of glass. The fixing of such an eye, however, presents diliiculties, owing to the smoothness of the wires forming the loop. Thimble-like devices which embrace the wires increase the thickness of the loops too much. The same objection is met with when employing a sheet-metal disk having upper and lower notches which engage in the loop.

According to the present invention, the thread loop is provided with an eye which, when inserted in its loop, is there held by its own elasticity or by the elasticity of the wires forming the loop.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawing illustrates, to an enlarged scale, the looped.

portion of a heddle furnished with an eye constructed according to the present invention, while Fig. 2 shows the eye detached.

The heddle a is formed with a loop Z), which is furnished with an eye 0, constructed from a length of wire flat or round in Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 14, 1913.

1910. Serial No. 575,804.

cross-section and bent into the form shown in 2 with the opposite ends adjacent to each other. The width. of the eye is a little greater than the inner width of the loo-p, so that when pressed into the latter the outward pressure due to expansion maintains the eye firmly between the w1res of the loop.

According to an alternative construction, the eye is endless, but as in the construction above described is made larger than the loop, and when pressed into the latter is there held by the elasticity of the wires forming the loop.

Eyes of any desired form and shape may be employed and may be used with heddles made with one, two or more wires.

The thickness of the metal or the diameter of the wire forming the eye should not be greater than that of the wires of the heddie, thereby avoiding any increase in the depth of the loop.

V7 hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A heddle consisting of two round wires twisted together above and below the loop for the warp-thread, such loop being furnished with a split eye also formed of round wire of substantially the same thickness as that of the wiresbefore referred to; the said split eye being forced into the loop, wherein it is retained by its own resilience.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CAR-L ENGER.

Vitnesses Gross lvltiLLnR, LoUis VANDORY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

